Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (949 mails)

[Joerg.Schilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Joerg Schilling)]

Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 05:30:46PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > Thank you for verifying that Suse currently has a credibility problem that 
> > arises from the fact that Suse forces their users to use a non-legal and 
> > buggy
> > fork but does not at least at the same time allow them to easily use the 
> > well 
> > maintained original software. Free and Open Source Software allows you to 
> > create a fork, but you still have to follow the rules of the law. The 
> > problem
> > with the fork "cdrkit" is that is ignores the rules of the law.
>
> What _specific_ legal issues are there concerning the package that SuSE
> ships?

The same that have been send in December 2006 to the people who introduced the 
the 
problems, see e.g.:

http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/linux-dist.html#violations

The people who ware repsonsible for the problems have been informed in a more 
detailled way but they did strictly reject to make the code legal again. 

Suse is not responsible for the problem itself and suse cannot fix it as the 
relevent people do not like to fix the problem.

The easiest way to deal with the problem is to distriribute the legal original
software from:

ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/
http://cdrecord.berlios.de

and suse will at the same time get all known bugs fixed and a lot of new 
features. 

Jörg

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